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Tuesday, 8 November 2011

An Infant Hercules (c.NZ494210)

Yes, “Middlesbrough in 1832”. To the uninitiated, it seems incredible. The former medieval village had shrunk to
little more than a farmstead by the turn of the nineteenth century, but would
soon see its population boom beyond belief in the ensuing decades…

Yarm was, Stockton is, Middlesbrough will be.

[Old Teesside
proverb, believed to have been uttered by industrialist Joseph Pease in the
1830s]

Population of Middlesbrough:

1801: 25

1829: 40

1831: 131

1841: 5,500

1851: 7,600

1861: 19,000

1871: 40,000

1881: 58,000

1891: 75,000

1901: 90,000

1932: 139,000

Present: c.140,000

A growth rate
believed to be unprecedented in Victorian England.

This remarkable place, the youngest child of England's enterprise, is an
infant, but if an infant, an infant Hercules.

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